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Based upon a long-term study to identify the most prevalent human attributes leading to career success, this book is designed to help individuals identify their own unique talents and succeed at every level.

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British motivational speaker, trainer, and author Marcus Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University with a Master's Degree in Social and Political Science in 1987. He is internationally known as an authority on employee productivity and is a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. Buckingham worked as a senior researcher at The Gallup Organization for 17 years and founded TMBC in 2007 in order to create strengths-based management training solutions for organizations. He has appeared on television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The View. Buckingham has been profiled in the following publications: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review. He has written or co-written numerous bestselling books, such as First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths; The One Thing You Need to Know; and Go Put Your Strengths to Work.

Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at Work

The Revolution

Two Million Interviews

The Anatomy of a Strength

Strong Lives

The Investor, the Director, the Skin Doctor, and the Editor

Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, and Cole Porter

Three Revolutionary Tools

Strength Building

Is He Always This Good?

Knowledge and Skills

Talent

Discover the Source of Your Strengths

StrengthsFinder

The Traces of Talent

The StrengthsFinder Profile

The Thirty-four Themes of StrengthsFinder

Achiever

Activator

Adaptability

Analytical

Arranger

Belief

Command

Communication

Competition

Connectedness

Context

Deliberative

Developer

Discipline

Empathy

Fairness

Focus

Futuristic

Harmony

Ideation

Inclusiveness

Individualization

Input

Intellection

Learner

Maximizer

Positivity

Relator

Responsibility

Restorative

Self-assurance

Significance

Strategic

Woo

Put Strengths to Work

The Questions You're Asking

Are there any obstacles to building my strengths?

Why should I focus on my signature themes?

Is there any significance to the order of my signature themes?

Not all of the phrases in the theme description apply to me. Why?

Why am I different from other people with whom I share some of the same themes?

Are any of the themes "opposites"?

Can I develop new themes if I don't like the ones I have?

Will I become too narrow if I focus on my signature themes?

How can I manage around my weaknesses?

Can my themes reveal whether I am in the right career?

Managing Strengths

"Fidel," Sam Mendes, and Phil Jackson

One By One

Building a Strengths-based Organization

The Full Story

The Practical Guide

Appendix

A Technical Report on StrengthsFinder

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